Elizabeth, m. to Hunt, of Chudleigh, in the III. SIR GEORGE CHUDLEIGH, whom. Mary, daughter of Richard Lee, of Winslade, in Devonshire, and by her (who d. in 1710), had with other issue, GEORGE, his successor. Thomas, colonel in the army, who left by Har riet his wife, a son and daughter, THOMAS, who inherited as fifth Baronet. ELIZABETH, b. in 1720, m. first, 4th August, 1744, to Augustus John, Earl of Bristol, and secondly, in 1769, to Evelyn, Duke of Kingston.t He d. in 1719, and was s. by his son, IV. SIR GEORGE CHUDLEIGH. This gentleman m. Frances, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Davie, bart. of Creedy, in the county of Devon, and had three daughters, his co-heirs, viz. 1. MARY, m. to Humphry Prideaux, esq. of Place. II. FRANCES, M. to Sir John Chichester, bart. III. MARGARET, m. to Sir Henry Oxenden, bart. He d. 10th October, 1738, and was s. by his nephew, V. SIR THOMAS CHUDLEIGH, an officer in the army, who d. unm. at Aix-la-Chapelle, in June, 1741, and was buried 12th July following, at Chelsea. He was s. by his cousin, VI. SIR JOHN CHUDLEIGH, who was of Chalmingtou, in the county of Dorset. This gentleman was killed at Ostend, 1st August, 1745, and dying unmarried, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. His sisters became his heirs, and from them the estate of Chalmington passed to their nephew, Hugh Chudleigh Haines, esq. by whom it was sold, in 1799, to WILLIAM BOWER, esq. of Dorchester. Arms-Erm. three lioncels rampt. gu. and a lineal descendant of Philip Chute, of Appledore, in the same county, standard bearer to HENRY VIII. who obtained, in recompence for his gallant services, at the siege of Boulogne, an augmentation to his armorial ensigns, was seated at Hauxfall Place, in Kent, and was created a BARONET in 1684. He died, without issue, in 1721, when the title became EXTINCT. The manor of Surrenden he devised to Edward Austen, esq. of Tenterden, afterwards a baronet, who subsequently sold it to Thomas Best, esq. of Chatham. Arms-Gu. semée of mullets or, three swords in fess arg. pomelled gold. The senior branch of the Chute family, (of which was CHALLONER CHUTE, speaker of the House of Commons to Richard Cromwell's parliament,) was seated at the Vine, in Hampshire, and preserved a male descent until 1776, the period of the decease of John Chute, esq., when the property devolved on Thomas Lobb, esq. (great grandson, through his mo ther, of Challoner Chute, esq. of the Vine,) and from his son, the Rev. Thomas Vere Chute, the estates have passed to their present proprietor, WILLIAM LYDE WIGGETT CHUTE, esq. of the Vine and Pickenham Hall. essays. This is the well-known Duchess of Kingston, found guilty by the House of Lords of bigamy. The following singular statement was made in a trial of an action of trespass, between William Sherwin, plaintiff, and Sir Walter Clarges, bart. and others, defendants, at the bar of the King's Bench, at Westminster, 15th November, 1700: "The plaintiff, as heir and representative of Thomas Monk, esq. elder brother of George, Duke of Albemarle, claimed the manor of Sutton, in the county of York, and other lands, as heir at law to the said duke, against the defendant, devisee under the will of Duke Christopher, who died issueless in 1688. Upon this trial it appeared, that Anne, the wife of George, Duke of Albemarle, was daughter of John Clarges, a farrier in Savoy, and farrier to Col. Monk. In 1632, she was married at the church of St. Lawrence Pountney, to Thomas Ratford, son of Thomas Ratford, late a farrier's servant to Prince CHARLES, and resident in the Mews. She had a daughter born in 1634, who d. in 1638; her husband and she lived at the Three Spanish Gipsies, in the New Exchange, and sold wash balls, powder, gloves, and such things, and SIR THOMAS CLARGES, knt.* whose successful proceedings to restore CHARLES II. through his brotherin-law Monk, are curiously detailed by the chronicler, Sir Richard Baker. He m. Mary, third daughter of George, and sister and co-heir of Edward Procter, esq. of Norwell-Woodhouse, Notts, and dying at his house in Piccadilly, 4th October, 1695, was s. by his only child, I. SIR WALTER CLARGES, bart. who had been so created by King CHARLES II. 30th October, 1674. He m. first, Jane, daughter of Sir Dawes Wymondsell, knt. of Putney,† and had a daughter, Jane, m. to Anthony Hammond, esq. of Somersham, in Huntingdonshire, M. P. for the borough of Huntingdon, temp. Queen ANNE. Sir Walter wedded, secondly, Jane, daughter of the Honourable James Herbert, of Kingsey, Bucks, and grandaughter of Philip, Earl of Pembroke, and by that lady had, THOMAS, his successor, and other issue. He m. thirdly, Elizabeth, relict of Sir Dawes Wymondsell, knt. of Putney, and second daughter and co-heir of Sir James Gould, an alderman of London, and by her had Robert, M. P. for Reading in the last parliament of Queen ANNE. Walter, m. Lady Elizabeth Shirley, eldest daughter of Robert, first Earl Ferrers. THOMAS, b. in 1721, who m. —————, daughter and co-heir of John, Viscount Barrington, and dying v. p. left a son, THOMAS, Successor to his grandfather. Barbara, m, to George Wright, esq. M. P. for Leicester, grandson of Sir Nathan Wright. Sir Thomas d. 19th February, 1759, and was s. by his grandson, III. SIR THOMAS CLARGES, who m. Miss Skrine, and d. 27th July, 1783, and was s. by his son, IV. SIR THOMAS CLARGES, at whose decease unmarried in 1834 the title became EXTINCT. "6 By will, he left the bulk of his fortune, consisting of landed property worth £10,000 a year, to Major Hare, a distant kinsman, and £100 a year to the eldest son of his near relative, Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill." § Arms-Barry of ten arg. and az. on a canton sa. an Indian ram's head couped of the first, armed with four horns or. she taught girls plain work. About 1647, she being sempstress to Monk, used to carry him linen. In 1648, her father and mother died; in 1649, she and her husband fell out, and parted; but no certificate from any parish register appears reciting his burial. In 1652, she was married in the church of St. George, Southwark, to General George Monk, and in the following year, was delivered of a son, CHRISTOPHER, who was suckled by Honour Mills, who sold apples, herbs, oysters,' which son CHRISTOPHER succeeded his father as second duke." The pedigree as far as this gentleman and the Duchess of Albemarle, is by Corneile de Montigny, de Glarges, Chevalier de l'ordre St. Michael, Seignour de Estemones, en JOHN CLARKE, esq. of Bocking, in Essex, descended from a Kentish family, was father of JOHN CLARKE, esq. of Bury, who died about 1681, leaving a daughter, the wife of Thomas Barnardiston, esq. of Hackney, in Middlesex, and a son, I. SAMUEL CLARKE, esq. of Snailwell, in the county of Cambridge, who was created a BARONET by King WILLIAM III. 25th July, 1698. Hem. Mary, daughter of Major Robert Thompson, of Newington Green, in the county of Middlesex, and had issue, ROBERT, his successor. Samuel, d. unm. He d. 8th March, 1719, and was s. by his son, II. SIR ROBERT CLARKE, M. P. for the county of Cambridge. This gentleman m. Mary, only surviving daughter of Arthur Barnardiston, esq. and grandaughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, of Barnardiston, in the county of Suffolk, and by her, who d. in January, 1732-3, had issue, SAMUEL, his successor, b. 21st May, 1712. ROBERT, successor to his brother, b. 22nd Jan. 1714. John, b. 15th May, 1717. one of whom m. Benj. Lane, esq. of Hampstead. Sir Robert d. in Nov. 1746, and was s. by his eldest son, III. SIR SAMUEL CLARKE, who d. unmarried, 10th November, 1758, and was s. by his brother, IV. SIR ROBERT CLARKE, who m. Elizabeth Littel, and dying 18th August, 1770, was s. by his son, Y. SIR JOHN CLARKE, who d. young and unmarried, 8th November, 1782, when the title reverted to his uncle, VI. SIR ARTHUR CLARKE, at whose decease in 1806, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. The manor of Snail well was sold by Sir Samuel Clarke, to the grandfather of the Hon. Thomas Brand, of whom it was purchased by the late John Tharp, esq. of Chippenham. Arms-Or, on a bend engrailed az. a mullet arg. la Province d'Hanault, chief du nom et famille de Montigny de Glarges, 4th February, 1675, and was entered in the Earl Marshall's book, in the College of Arms, 7th February, 1675. LE NEVE'S MSS. vol. iii. p. 198. There are certainly though too few descents for such a period of time. By Jane, his wife, only daughter of Sir Robert Coke, knt. of Hyneham, in the county of Gloucester. One of his daughters was wife of - Tancred, esq. master of the buck hounds to King WILLIAM, and another Howell, esq. Gentleman's Magazine. of The family of Clere was established in England by one of the companions in arms of the CONQUEROR, and remained for centuries, maintaining the highest position in the county of Norfolk. SIR ROBERT CLERE, knt. of Ormesby, representative of this ancient line at the close of the fifteenth century, famed for his great wealth and manly courage, served as sheriff of Norfolk in 1501, and was present at the celebrated interview between HENRY VIII. and the French King, 7th of June, 1520. He m. first Anne, daughter of Sir William Hopton, knt. by whom he had a son, William, who d. s. p. and secondly, Alice, daughter of Sir William Boleyn, knt. of Blickling and aunt of the ill-fated Queen, ANNA BOLEYN, by whom he had issue, 1. JOHN, his heir. II. Richard. III. Thomas, buried at Lambeth in 1545. An epitaph by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, perpetuates his memory. 1. Elizabeth, m. to Sir Robert Peyton, knt. of Iselham. II. Anne, a nun at Denny. III. Dorothy, m. to Robert Cotton. IV. Audrey m. to William Jenney. Sir Robert, d. 10th August, 1529, and by his will, dated nine days previously, directs above all things, that if any persons could prove that he had hindered them, or against conscience wronged them, in their goods or substance, that his executors, on such proof, should make them restitution. His eldest son and heir, SIR JOHN CLERE, of Ormesby, knt. was treasurer, in 1549, of the king's army in France, and in 1557, having been constituted vice-admiral, was sent to sea with a fleet under his command, to alarm the northern coasts of Scotland. He landed at Kirkwall, but the Scots suddenly attacking him, he and eighty of his men were either killed or drowned. Sir John m. Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Tirrell, knt. of Gipping, in Suffolk, and had issue, 1. Robert, slain at Musselburgh. 11. Thomas, d. at Florence. III. EDWARD, the heir. 1. Elizabeth, m. first, Walter Heronden, esq. and secondly, to Francis Trevor, esq. of Tacolnes ton. 11. Margaret, m. to William Haddon, esq. The estate of Ormesby was acquired in the thirteenth century, by the marriage of Nicholas de Clere with Annable, daughter and heir of Sir William de Ormesby, knt. + A branch of the family settled in Ireland, and continued eminent in that part of the kingdom, until it eventually terminated in an heiress, MARY CLERE, only daughter of John Clere, esq. of The only surviving son, EDWARD CLERE, esq. of Ormesby and Blickling, M. P. for Thetford, 1556, and for Grampound in 1558 and 1563, who served as sheriff of Norfolk in 1567, m. Frances, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Fulmerston, knt. and had three sons, viz. I. EDWARD (Sir), his heir. 11. Francis (Sir), m. Elizabeth Wroth, and d. s. p. III. Gilbert, d. unm. Edward Clere was buried at Blickling, under a most curious altar tomb, placed between the chancel and Boleyn's Chapel; his effigies which laid upon it long since passed away, but there remained the arms and matches of his family from the CONQUEST, to the time that his son and heir, Sir Edward Clere, and his mother, Frances, erected the tomb. The said son and heir, SIR EDWARD CLERE, of Ormesby, was knighted at Norwich, by Queen ELIZABETH, in her royal progress, and served as sheriff of Norfolk in 1580. He m. first, Margaret, daughter of William Yaxley, esq. of Yaxley, in Suffolk, by whom he had a son, HENRY. He m. secondly, Agnes, daughter of Robert Crane, esq. of Chilton, and widow of Sir Christopher Heydon, of Baconsthorp, and by her had another son, Robert, who d. young. Sir Edward affecting much splendour, and maintaining a vast retinue, became involved in embarrassment, and was forced to sell a considerable portion of his estate. (The manor of Blickling was purchased by Sir Henry Hobart, knt. attorney-general.) He d. in London, 8th June, 1606, and was there interred with great solemnity, 14th August following, being succeeded by his son, I. SIR HENRY CLERE, of Ormesby, who was knighted by JAMES I. at the Charter House, 11th May, 1603, and created a BARONET 27th February, 1620. He m. Muriel, daughter of Sir Edmund Mundeford, knt. of Feltwell, in Norfolk, and had an only child, ABIGAIL, m. to John Cromwell, esq. of London, second son of Sir Oliver Cromwell, knt. of Hinchenbrooke. Sir Henry died 21st August, 1622, and with him the BARONETCY EXPIRED.t MUND, alias CLERKE, styled esquire, 23 HENRY VI. Who then held the whole manor of Willoughby, by lease, of the guardian and brethren of the hospital of St. John, without the East Gate at Oxford, founded by HENRY III.; we find further, that William Wainflete, Bishop of Winchester, having, 26 HENRY VI., commenced the foundation of Magdalen College, in Oxford, on the site of the said hospital, did, in the 35th of the same reign, obtain from the said master and brethren, the grant of this lordship of Willoughby, whereunto it has ever since continued, being possessed by the president and fellows thereof at the present time; yet was constantly leased out to the descendants of the said Richard Clerke, persons of fair estate in that county, of which family was HENRY CLERKE, who had two sons, EDWARD, his heir. Hierome, father of John Clerke, of Gilsborough, Northamptonshire, barrister-at-law, and bencher of Lincoln's Inn, in 1640. The elder son, EDWARD CLERKE, had issue, WILLIAM, his heir. Henry, of Rochester, serjeant-at-law. Samuel, D. D. of Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, chaplain in ordinary to King JAMES I. and to King CHARLES I. He m. Margaret, daughter of William Peyto, esq. of Chesterton, in the county of Warwick. The eldest son, WILLIAM CLERKE, esq. of Willoughby, had by his wife, Agnes, three sons, viz. Richard. ROBERT. John (Sir), who in HENRY the VIII.'s time, having taken the Duke of Longvile prisoner, at the battle of Spurs, was for that signal service rewarded by the king with an honorary addition to his arms, viz. "Sinister, a canton, azure, with a demi ram, salient, argent, two fleur de luces, or, in chief, and over all, a baton, trunked," as appeareth on his monument, at Thame, in Oxfordshire, which arms, "argent on a bend, gules, between three pellets, as many swans, proper," were borne by the Clerkes above mentioned, and continued to Sir John Clerke's descendants, who resided at Weston, by Thame, and at Crowton, in Northamptonshire. Robert, of Long Buckley, in Northamptonshire, barrister at-law, m. Frances, daughter of John Cotes, esq. of Woodcote, in Shropshire, and had issue. CLEMENT. Elizabeth, m. to John Walcot, esq. of Walcot, Mary, m. to Sir Robert Atkyns, K. B. chief baron Barbara, m. to Sir Wadham Wyndham, knt. one of the justices of the King's Bench. Sarah, m. to Thomas Kinnersley, esq. of Loxley, in Staffordshire. Dorcas, m. to John Cotes, esq. of Woodcote, Salop. Sir George d. in 1648. His youngest son, 1. CLEMENT CLERKE, esq. of Launde Abbey, in the county of Leicester, was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II., 18th June, 1661. He m. Catherine, daughter of George Talbot, esq. of Ridge, in Shropshire, and had issue, was s. by his eldest son, III. SIR CLEMENT CLERKE, who d. unmarried about the year 1715, and was s. by his brother, IV. SIR TALBOT CLERKE, who m. Barbara, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Gladin, esq. of Durrent Hall, in the county of Derby, by whom, (who m. secondly, John Monk Morgan, esq. of Monmouthshire,) he had, with a daughter, an only son, his successor, at his decease, 16th February, 1723. V. SIR TALEOT CLERKE, at whose decease, in mino. rity and unmarried, 20th November, 1732, the Baronetcy devolved upon his cousin, (refer to GEORGE, third son of the first Baronet), VI. SIR TALBOT CLERKE, who m. Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Rogers, of Painswick, in the county of Gloucester, but dying s. p. 10th July, 1750, the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. Arms Arg. on a bend gu. between three pellets, as many swans ppr. CLERKE, OF DUDDLESTONE. CREATED 26th Oct. 1774.-EXTINCT 22nd April, 1788. Lineage. I. SIR PHILIP JENNINGS CLERKE, of Duddlestone, in Salop, was created a BARONET in 1774, but having no child, the title expired with him, in 1788. Arms-See CLERKE, of Launde Abbey. The very ancient family of CLIFTON has been, for a long series of generations, seated in the county of Lancaster, and its male representative, Thomas Clifton, esq. still resides at Lytham, in that shire. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 55.) The chief of the house at the commencement of the seventeenth century, 1. SIR THOMAS CLIFTON, of Westby and Clifton, b. 7th July, 1628, was created a BARONET, 4th March, 1660. He m. first, Bridget, daughter of Sir George Heneage, of Hainton, in Lincolnshire, by whom he had several children, who all died young, except MARY, who m. Thomas, sixth Lord Petre. From this marriage lineally descends William-FrancisHenry, present LORD PETRE. Sir Thomas wedded secondly, Bridget, daughter of Sir Edward Hussey, knt. of Honington, and had by her one son and one daughter, viz. THOMAS, b. in 1668, and d. v. p. issueless, in 1688. BRIDGET, M. to Sir Francis Andrews, of Denton. Sir Thomas Clifton and Lord Molyneux, with several other Catholic gentlemen of rank, were accused of high treason in 1689, but all acquitted. He died 13th November, 1694, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED; but the family estates devolved on his nephew, THOMAS CLIFTON, esq. ancestor of the present THOMAS CLIFTON, esq. of Clifton and Lytham. Arms-Sa. on a bend arg. three mullets gu. Catherine, m. to Sir George Russell, knt. of the Margaret, m. to Sir Richard Cholmley, knt. of He died in 1598. His wife survived him, and dying 23rd October, 1627, was buried in the chancel of Addersbury Church.* Mr. Cobb was s. by his son, SIR WILLIAM COвв, knt. who m. Susan, daughter and co-heir of Noah Floyd, esq. of the county of Gloucester, by whom, who d. in 1639, he had twenty-one children, but few only attained maturity; of those were, THOMAS, his heir. * The inscription on his tomb was as follows: Here lyeth buryed ye boddy of Alice Cobb, Widdow, sometime wife of William Cobb, esq. descended from ye ancient family of ye Cobbs, of Sandringham, in the County of Norfolk, by whome she was ye mother of 16 Children, 7 Sons, and 9 Daughters, all of which she lived to see buryed, but 3 onely, ye right worshipful Sir William Cobb, Knt. her onely Son, and Dame Catherine, who married to Sir George Russell, of Bedfordshire, knt. and Dame Margaret, who married to Sir Richard Cholmley, of Yorkshire, knt. She lived a Maid 19 Years, a Wife 26 Years, and after her Husband's Death, who deceased in October, Anno 1598. She lived a widdow 30 Years, having performed the part both of a constant loveing Wife, and a Kind and carefull Mother, resting now with the Almighty, whome her greatest care was ever to serve and feare. She dyed ye 23rd of October, A. Dni 1627. |